Magical challenges to prove a truth are well accepted in Glorantha. This goes back to the Gods Age, when contests of the arts were popular among the gods – the most famous…
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The View From Furthest, Late 1625
Now let’s look at things from the vantage of Furthest, again late 1625. The Lunar position in Dragon Pass is in shambles. Glamour has tasked you with recovering Dragon Pass from the…
White Bull Season 1 Episode 22 – transcript
0:08okay welcome back to another episode of the white bull campaign at the chaosium0:16house runequest campaign i am jeff richard i’ll be your gm tonight and with me are0:22neil robinson linda borgen…
CHA4034 Red Book of Magic – Chapter 03 Spirit Magic Spells Q&A
Official Answers from Chaosium It also contains the Q&A for Spirit Magic spells in: Befuddle References: RBM 110, RQG 256 Creatures with no INT A successfully Befuddled a creature has zero INT….
CHA4034 Red Book of Magic – Chapter 02 Rune Magic Spells Q&A (A-M)
Official Answers from Chaosium This covers the second part of Chapter 2, (A-M), pages 10-67: It also contains the Q&A for Rune spells in: For the Rune Magic rules, see Chapter 02…
Imperial Nobility II
A few more numbers that may help give some context to the Imperial nobility. There are about 5.56 million people in the Lunar Heartlands. There are another 1.38 million in the Provinces….
The Lunar Heartlands
As we think about the Lunar Heartlands as a place populated by people, a few dimensions are worth keeping in mind. It is about 300 miles from Jillaro to Elz Ast and…
Hon-eel’s Descendants and the Imperial Nobility
In 1486, the Lunar goddess Hon-eel, daughter of the Red Emperor and Sandene, gave birth to twins, conceived with the Secret Light of the Sun. One was a boy, blond and pale-eyed,…
Jaxarte and the Emperor
First published in Reaching Moon Megacorp’s Rough Guide to Glamour Copyright © 1997 by Michael O’Brien The Coders Cometh In 1620 the Lunar government dispatched the Coders, their finest and most trusted…
Lunar Cities I
I salute the so-far unknown Hippodamus who aided Hon-eel in developing the standardised grid plan for Lunar cities founded or rebuilt in the Fifth Wane. Each city was laid out on a…
A Civilization of River-and-Grasslands
Where Sartar is a silk road kingdom, with its riches coming from its command over the trade routes through strategic Dragon Pass, the Lunar Empire is a river-and-grasslands civilization. Because of its…
White Bull Season 1 Episode 20 – transcript
0:10welcome back to another episode of the chaosium house runequest campaign the0:16white bull uh i’m jeff richard and i will be your gm with me is neil0:22robinson linda borgen claudia loroth philip…
Ye Booke of Tentacles 3 (2000)
The Chaos Society The bulk of this third volume is devoted to the Pavis and Big Rubble Companion – a series of articles based in the classic Gloranthan Setting. Although this forms…
History of Gloranthan Art, Part V – The Lunar Empire
But, in Peloria, things are different. The EWF style are gone. And we have a long dark age. The Carmanians embrace a formal brutalism style. Them and their gods triumphing atop piles…
Notes on the Origins Of Tarsh
Let’s talk a little bit about the south Pelorian Orlanthi, as I think that they are important as a background – even though the Lunar Tarshites are not merely a Lunarized variant…
The Population of Lunar Tarsh
About 35% of the population of Lunar Tarsh are members of Lunar cults and a little less than 20% of the population of Lunar Tarsh came from or are descended from settlers…
The Struggle for the Middle Air
The Red Goddess never made peace with the Air Gods, for there was none among her pantheon who could approach those deities on their own ground. There began, within history, a struggle…
The View From Boldhome, circa 1627
Argrath was acclaimed Prince on Day 88 of 1627. Several assassination attempts were made on him as he entered the city, but his companions cut them down. Argrath impressively lit the Flame…
City Gods
Most cities have their own protective spirits. Citizens worship their city’s spirit to keep it strong and healthy, for it is the soul of the city. The city god is usually represented…
ISS1306 Champions of the Reaching Moon (2007)
Lunar Herobands, Heroes, and Anti-heroes The Lunar Empire is a vibrant and dynamic empire of numerous different peoples, leagues, associations and gatherings, and its heroes are shaped by their social interactions, from…
CHA4028 RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha – Chapter 14 Shamans Q&A
Official Answers by Chaosium This covers Chapter 5, pages 137-161 RQG Cults allowing Shaman see: Tools of the Shaman (page 351) Assistant Shaman (page 352) Discorporation Shamans can simply discorporate, everyone else…
A Timeline of the History of the Lunar Empire to 1625 (2001)
Originally published in Wyrm’s Footnotes #14, earlier and partial versions of this Timeline were published in Wyrm’s Footnotes #11 & #12 and Heroes #2 & #6. This version is 1998 and was updated in…
CHA4028 RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha – Chapter 11 Spirit Magic Spells Q&A
Official Answers from Chaosium This covers the second part of Chapter 11, pages 256-267 For the Spirit Magic rules section see Chapter 11 Spirit Magic Q&A The Q&A here relates only to…
Spirit Magic by Cult and Associate Cult
For publications: All Spirit Magic These cults have cult shaman. Their Initiates have access to all spirit magic except cult specials and where noted: Spirit Magic only available from Shamans The following…
Dragon Pass in the Third Age, part 2
The southeastern corner of Dragon Pass, roughly the area between Kero Fin Mountain and the barbaric Plains of Prax is the Kingdom of Sartar. It consists of many Orlanthi tribes that were…